Mark Cisar
Mark Cisar (Magnolia High School, Class of 1994). He is the only two-time winner of a state football 'Player of the Year' award in OVAC history, having won West Virginia’s Kennedy Award in 1992 and ’93. He was also the Gatorade 'Player of the Year' in 1992 and was a two-time Class AA all-state captain. He was a two-time All-OVAC and All-Valley selection.
Cisar played quarterback, safety, placekicker and punter on Blue Eagle teams that compiled a two-year record of 25-3, finishing as the Class AA state runner-up twice under the tutelage of his father, Dave Cisar.
In two seasons as a starter and one as a backup, he passed for Ohio Valley record totals of 5,193 yards and 64 touchdowns.
As a junior, he passed for a record 2,691 yards and 34 TDs. He also kicked a valley and state record total of 85 points and had a record-tying 99-yard TD pass as a junior.
In baseball, he was a three-time All-West Virginia Class AA, All-OVAC and All-Valley pitcher.
He was also a regular in basketball, scoring 45 points in a game on one occasion.
He earned a baseball scholarship to Charleston Southern University in South Carolina where he was a four-year starter.
He was named Big South Conference 'Player of the Year' in 1997 and was a three-time all-conference selection.
He was drafted by the Boston Red Sox and was the Red Sox Rookie League 'Pitcher of the Year' in 1998. In 1999, he was selected to the South Atlantic League All-Star Team and won a South Atlantic League title in ’99 as a member of the Augusta Green Jackets.
He then played for the Capitales de Quebec, an independent league team, and was an all-star in 2002 and the Northern League 'Relief Pitcher of the Year'.
Cisar earned his bachelor’s degree in physical education and was a substitute teacher for five years in the Wetzel County School system before going back to Charleston (S.C.) to serve as a health and physical education teacher as well as an assistant football coach.
Currently a teacher at the Belmont Career Center in St. Clairsville, he is the head football coach at Union Local High School, guiding the Jets to a 9-1 record and their first-ever OHSAA playoff berth in 2007. He was named the Eastern District’s Division IV 'Co-Coach of the Year' in Division IV.
